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10 unusual facts about Greenwood


Adam Said Galore

Adam Said Galore were formed in 1994, by Michael Lake on guitar, Matt Maguire on drums, Andrew Ryan on guitar and lead vocals, and Simon Struthers on bass guitar, in the Perth suburb of Greenwood.

Fred Norcross

From April 1912 to December 1917, Norcross lived in Greenwood and later Princeton, British Columbia.

Greenwood, Nova Scotia

The Royal Canadian Air Force took over the facility in 1944, renaming it RCAF Station Greenwood, a name it maintained until the February 1, 1968 unification of the Canadian Forces which saw the airfield and associated facilities renamed CFB Greenwood.

Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma

This road was given the name Greenwood Avenue, named for a city in Mississippi.

Kings Transit

Kings Transit originally operated between Wolfville and Kentville, eventually expanding to Greenwood in western Kings County.

KZZA

Its transmitter is located in northern most Wise County near Greenwood, Texas.

Linda L. Barnes

She co-edits a series on religion and healing for Praeger Press, a division of Greenwood.

St. Charles-Greenwood

Charles-Greenwood is a former neighborhood of northeastern Atlanta, named after St. Charles and Greenwood avenues.

Around 2003 the neighborhood was fully absorbed into the Virginia-Highland neighborhood.

The Black Wall Street Records

The name "The Black Wall Street" is adopted from what was the racially segregated Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma.


Al Greenwood

Greenwood would go on to play keyboards on one-time Rainbow (and future Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force) frontman Joe Lynn Turner's 1985 debut solo album, Rescue You.

Alicia Morton

From October 6–16, 2011, Morton starred alongside Andrea McArdle in the new musical Greenwood the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

Anna Mae Routledge

Routledge was also in Hallmark Hall of Fame's A Dog Named Christmas, starring Bruce Greenwood, and has been in episodes of Life Unexpected, Smallville, Supernatural and Psych.

Australian Christian Churches

Greenwood and Philip Duncan (prominent PCA pastor in Sydney) exercised greater control in their own churches which were large and their influence dominated the other PCA churches.

BMS World Mission

They were: Thomas Blundel, Joshua Burton, John Eayres, Andrew Fuller, Abraham Greenwood, William Heighton, Reynold Hogg, Samuel Pearce, John Ryland, Edward Sherman, John Sutcliff, Joseph Timms.

Carson Parks

Following the success of The New Christy Minstrels, Gilkyson and the Parks brothers then formed a choral group, The Greenwood County Singers, featuring five boys and two girls.

Charlotte Greenwood

Most of Greenwood's best work was done on the stage, and was lauded by such critics as James Agate, Alexander Woollcott and Claudia Cassidy.

Davydd Greenwood

Davydd Greenwood (b. 1942) is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University.

Gail Greenwood

In 2001, Greenwood was recruited to play bass on tour in support of Canadian pop punk artist Bif Naked.

Greenwood Lake, New York

In July 2011, Rob Reiner began shooting a movie in the Village of Greenwood Lake.

Greenwood Music Camp

The name Greenwood had been given to the Hill's summer place by Ruth's younger brother who loved Robin Hood.

Greenwood Personal Credit

Their headquarters are in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and there are local Greenwood Personal Credit offices situated in towns and cities throughout the United Kingdom.

Greenwood Personal Credit Ltd is a finance company supplying home collected credit in the United Kingdom, a subsidiary of Provident Financial.

Greenwood Plantation

Many other famous friends of the Whitneys stayed at Greenwood over the years, including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Fred Astaire.

Greenwood Publishing Group

Under Smith, GPG made a number of additional acquisitions including the Ablex and Oryx imprints and Libraries Unlimited, and expanded GPG's on line and CD-ROM products under its Greenwood Electronic Media imprint.

Greenwood State Beach

The beach is named after Britton Bailey Greenwood, son of famed mountain man Caleb Greenwood.

Greenwood Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania

Between Mahaffey and Grampian on U.S. Route 219, Greenwood contains the villages of Curry Run and Bells Landing.

Jeff Raikes

Raikes grew up in Ashland, Nebraska, graduating from Ashland-Greenwood High School in 1976.

Joseph Greenwood

Greenwood owned extensive properties in Mangarei (Mangere), and built a house there in 1852.

Landsbanki

In 2005, Landsbanki acquired three European securities houses: Teather & Greenwood, located in London and Edinburgh; Kepler Capital Markets, headquartered in Paris; and Merrion Capital Group in Dublin.

Laura Greenwood

Before her breakthrough, Greenwood had already participated in two ITV productions, the children's series My Life as a Popat and the drama Walk Away and I Stumble. She also had small roles in notable film productions The Brothers Grimm and V for Vendetta.

Lee Greenwood

Greenwood is married to former Miss Tennessee USA Kimberly Payne.

Lil Greenwood

Lil Greenwood (November 18, 1924 – July 19, 2011) was an American Jazz and R&B vocalist.

Low Income Housing Institute

Greenwood House in Crown Hill is home to adult women transitioning from the street.

Mitchell Freeway

Each interchange also provides access for the railway stations in the median (Greenwood and Whitfords respectively) via the southbound entry ramps, which are two-way north of the carparks' entrances.

Nicholas Tarling

In 1957 he took up a teaching post at the University of Queensland in Gordon Greenwood's Department of History and Political Science.

Pearl Poet

In 1956 Ormerod Greenwood, working on a translation of Gawain, made the suggestion that the author of Pearl and Gawain was one of the Masseys of Sale.

Peter Snape, Baron Snape

He once lived at Greenwood Gardens, Bredbury and was a railwayman and Bredbury and Romiley Urban District councillor representing Bredbury South ward.

Polymorphia

Jonny Greenwood collaborated with Penderecki on an album featuring Polymorphia released on March 13th, 2012 and including a piece composed by Greenwood entitled 48 Responses to Polymorphia.

Ron Greenwood

The Town Council of Loughton, where Greenwood lived during his time as West Ham manager, erected a blue plaque to his memory on one of his former houses in the town, 22 Brooklyn Avenue: this was unveiled by Sir Trevor Brooking and the Town Mayor, Chris Pond on 28 October 2008.

Sonnet 147

Robert Appelbaum is a critic who wrote an article on Sonnet 147 in The Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare.

Sublimus Dei

"Encyclopedia of the middle passage", Toyin Falola, Amanda Warnock,Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, ISBN 0-313-33480-3

Taman Greenwood

Taman Greenwood, a town in Selangor is located between the interchanges of Jalan Batu Caves and Karak Highway.

The Bell Jar

Larry Peerce's The Bell Jar (1979) starred Marilyn Hassett as Esther Greenwood, the protagonist and featured the tagline: "Sometimes just being a woman is an act of courage."

The White Carnation

A policeman questions him what he is doing in the house, all of whose inhabitants were killed by a V-1 flying bomb during a Christmas Eve party in 1944, but Greenwood indignantly insists that he is in his own house.

Vivian Fine

In addition to numerous articles and several dissertations, two books have been published on Fine’s life and music: The Music of Vivian Fine, by the noted musicologist Heidi Von Gunden (Scarecrow Press, 1999), which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor award in 2000, and Vivian Fine, A Bio-Bibliography, by the poet and composer Judith Cody (Greenwood Press, 2002).

WABG

WABG-TV, a television station (channel 6 analog/32 digital) licensed to Greenwood, Mississippi, United States

Waterfront Development Corporation

Early in 2006 Metro Mayor Jerry Abramson asked The Waterfront Development Corporation to lead the proposed redevelopment of the Riverview Park (known to locals as “The Greenwood Boat Ramp” is southwest Jefferson County.

WGRM

WGRM-FM, a radio station (93.9 FM) licensed to Greenwood, Mississippi, United States

Willie Louis

Willie Reed, as Willie Louis was then known, was born in 1937 in Greenwood, Mississippi at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta.

WMAO

WMAO-FM, a radio station (90.9 FM) licensed to Greenwood, Mississippi, United States